5 Top Tips to help the brain work better under exam stress: Exam Stress – GCSE’s, A’Levels, SATS, end of academic year assessments, are all just around the corner. Young people everywhere, have been revising their socks off, and now the weeks of assessments are upon us. STRESS! Are your children stressed? I know my sons…
A parent’s instincts are very strong – and invariably cannot be faulted. I knew my son was encountering difficulties, that even I could not understand. Trying to get the right support and help for him, seemed to be a bewildering and complicated world to navigate – and a world in which the ‘wheels of change,’…
This is a question I get asked, on a regular basis. Another one I hear a lot, is, “Why does my child have the difficulties they do?” And still further, comments like – “I wish I could understand why my child’s brain is ‘wired’ differently.” As a mother of a child who is not ‘neuro-typical’,…
8 years ago, my father passed away from cancer. This was followed by a period of additional stress in my life. I had several months of picking up every virus going – in and out of stomach bugs and so on. Where once I had bounced back from these common ailments in the blink of…
Several of my clients have come to me, because they have difficulties with their handwriting and getting their ideas down on paper. I trained in teaching handwriting and know what it is like to try and help children who are struggling and see relatively little progress. Through learning about childhood reflexes, I have discovered that…
Having taught for many years, there are lots of things that can make learning to read challenging – specially learning difficulties like Dyslexia. When parents come to me to ask if I can help their child, who is struggling to learn to read, the first thing to assess is whether the muscle tone in their…
We live in a completely different world, to the one that we grew up in. Every parent constantly asks themselves, if they are doing the right thing, regarding their parenting – after all, it is one of the most important jobs in life, that does not come with a hand book! Parents work long hours,…
I recently posted a question on my fb page, asking people to share what happens to them when they are stressed. Quite correctly responses said – ‘It depends on what the cause of the stress is.’ Typical responses included – – craving carbohydrates – sugar, chocolate, crisps, bread, biscuits and so on – feeling really…